Wilhelm Heering Explained
Wilhelm Christian August Heering (6 September 1876, Altona - 26 May 1916, Verdun) was a German botanist.
He studied natural sciences at the universities of Munich, Halle and Kiel, receiving his doctorate in 1899. While a student, he began expansion of a herbarium that was formerly maintained by apothecary Johann Jacob Meyer from 1812 to 1834. The herbarium is now kept at the botanical institute of the University of Hamburg.[1]
Beginning in 1899 he focused on studies of freshwater algae, providing information on a wide variety of algae found in the Eppendorfer Moor. In 1902 he began teaching classes at a secondary school in Ottensen, and in 1909 became associated with the Schleswig-Holstein provincial office for nature conservation. From 1911 he worked as a research assistant at the Botanical State Institute in Hamburg, during which time he also conducted lectures at the Colonial Institute. While serving as a deputy officer in World War I, he died on the Western Front in May 1916.[1]
As a taxonomist he circumscribed numerous species within the botanical genus Baccharis.[2]
Selected works
- Die Algen des Eppendorfer Moores bei Hamburg, 1904 - Algae of the Eppendorfer Moor near Hamburg.
- Bäume und Wälder Schleswig-Holsteins. Ein Beitrag zur Natur-und Kulturgeschichte der Provinz, 1906 - Trees and forests in Schleswig-Holstein: A contribution to the natural and cultural history of the province.
- Die Süsswasseralgen Schleswig-Holsteins und der angrenzenden Gebiete der Freien und Hansestädte Hamburg und Lübeck, etc. - The freshwater algae of Schleswig-Holstein and the neighboring areas of the Free and Hanseatic cities of Hamburg and Lübeck.
- Untersuchungen über die Weideverhältnisse in Deutsch-Südwestafrika : (Futterpflanzen und Bodenproben), 1911; with Clemens Grimme - Studies on pasture conditions in German Southwest Africa: fodder plants and soil samples.
- Die Futterpflanzen Deutsch-Südwestafrikas und Analysen von Bodenproben, 1914; with Clemens Grimme - Forage plants of German Southwest Africa and analysis of soil samples: botanical and chemical analyses.
- Systematische und pflanzengeographische Studien über die Baccharis-Arten des aussertropischen Südamerikas, 1915 - Systematic and phytogeographical studies of Baccharis-types from tropical South America.
Also, he made contributions involving the green algae class Chlorophyceae to the series Die süsswasser-flora Deutschlands, Österreichs und der Schweiz.[3]
Notes and References
- https://books.google.com/books?id=bgix7BXklY8C&dq=%22Heering%2C+Wilhelm%22+1876&pg=PA180 Hamburgische Biografie-Personenlexikon, Volume 2
- http://www.ipni.org/ipni/advPlantNameSearch.do?find_includePublicationAuthors=on&find_includeBasionymAuthors=on&find_rankToReturn=all&output_format=normal&find_authorAbbrev=Heering IPNI
- http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHeering%2C+Wilhelm+Christian+August%2C&qt=hot_author WorldCat Search
